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Commonwealth Secretariat press release

Mrs Graça Machel to highlight progress made on gender

9 March 2001

This year's Commonwealth Lecture on the theme Gender Inequality: From Roles to Rights will be delivered in London on 13 March 2001 by Mrs Graça Machel, President of the Foundation for Community Development.

Mrs Machel is one of Africa's most prominent leaders of civil society. A former first lady of both Mozambique and South Africa, she has extensive experience in both government and non-governmental affairs at the national, regional and international levels. Mrs Machel is currently a member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters at the United Nations, where she also led the team of experts that prepared a report for the UN Secretary-General on the impact of armed conflict on children. She is also a member of the boards of the UN Foundation, the UN University and the South Centre.

Mrs Graça Machel was unanimously chosen as the new Chairperson of the Commonwealth Foundation by Commonwealth Senior Officials at their meeting in Apia, Samoa, in October 2000.

Note to Editors:
The inaugural Commonwealth Lecture (1998) entitled Human Rights: Is there a Commonwealth Perspective? was delivered by Professor Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the 1998 Nobel Laureate for Economics. The Second Commonwealth Lecture (1999) entitled Globalisation and the Nation State, was delivered by the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia. The Third Commonwealth Lecture (2000) entitled Africa: Maintaining the Momentum, was delivered by Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General.

The Lectures are sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Royal Over-Seas League, the Cambridge Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, the Commonwealth Institute and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.


For further information about the Commonwealth Lectures and Commonwealth activities contact Information and Public Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX
Tel: +44 20 7747 6385/2
Fax: +44 20 7839 9081
E-mail address: info@commonwealth.int


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